Advertising device



J. HULL. ADVERTISING DEVICE. lCATlON FILED MAR. 11. \92

1,385,21 1 Patented July 19, 1921.

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l. HULL... ADVERTISING DEV-ICE.

4 APPUCATION FILED MAR. 11, 1921. 1,385,21 1 Pa ent July 19,1921.

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LHULL. ADVERTISING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17, 192].

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J. HULL. ADVERTISING DEVICE.

I APPLICATION HLED MAR. H, mm. 1,385,211 Patented July 19, 1921.

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JoHNHoLLQoF ooaa'EsvILLE, PENNSYLVANIA. y ADVERTISI DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern;

e it known that I,- JoHN HULL, a'citizen of Ukraine, residing atCoatesville, in the county of hester and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful mprovements in Advertising Devices, ofwhich the following play devices particularly in novel cigar or paratus.

The principal object of. theinvention is to provide a cigar dispensingsuch combination and arrangement as to present a pleasing noi 'eltycalculated toa'ttract attention when used and to thereby advertise aparticular make of cigar.

Another struct the device so as to embody durability as well assimplicity of construction.

Broadly described, the invention embodies manually operable means todeliver the cigars one at a timeyto a tray held in the hands of a humanfigure and tosimultaneously open curtains at a doorway gure forwardlyfrom a point within a house-like structure through th onto a fporchwhere the cigar may be readily 'omthe tray, :1 sulting in moving thefigure again into the structureand closing of the cur tains so that thetray will be again positioned for the reception of another cigar.

With the above general ob ects in view and others that will becomeapparent as the nature of theinvention is better understood,

the same consists in the novel form; combination and arrangement ofpartsherein- View of the same takenupon line III-.III of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional "view taken 1'' Fig. 2,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed Mai-ch 17; 1921.

upon line VI pen hold upon the plate 13 It so as to be fed ygravity theporch roof 9. A

are 27 rigidly mounted thereon so 11' for manual Patented Serial No.453,022.

July 19, 1921.

line -V 0 Fig. 4,

ilar view taken upon line VI-VI of Fig. 4

7 Fig. 7 is a still further similar view taken I- II of Fi 4,

1g. Sis a fragmentary sectional view taken upon line VIII-VIII of Fig.2, and

ig. is a fragmentary sectional view upon line IX-IX of Fig. 2.

deferring more in detail to the several yiews, the

hinged closure 12.

An inclined plate 13 is .Wltlllll the chamber 11, and a shaft 14 isrotatably the lower end of this plate 13, while a pair of disks arefastened to the shaft 14 as at 16 in spaced relation, the disks 16 beingpr0- vided with alined peripheral notches 17 disposed for reception oftime from the plate 13 I ding apron 19 of the plate 13 the closure 12closed. By

closure l2,'the cigars 20 may so as to opening the be disposed asclearly shown in Fi toward the disks 16. .lhe floor oithe house-likestructure 5 and of the porch 8 constitutes the top of. a casing 21.which is divided into a plurality of chambers by means of a horizontalpartition 22 and :i'nd the partition 22 neath a sl ot 24 in the ingwithin the partition 23, d directly bewall of the casfrom a point pointbeneath 25 is movable is provided with a upwardly human fig that-saidcarriage into and cans is provided carriage 25 and flexible member 28standard 26 gure may move with the out ofthe d y moving the the-sameconsists of a I the doorway 7,

' 'ward'ly under "the partition full lines in Fig. .3

each other for 7 from each other ble memberfwardly through a slot 41inthe top of riage 25 and extending forwardly from the latter to andarounch an idler 29' Wl1lCll.1S

suitably journaled within a slot 30 in the forward flexible membprovided end of the partition 22-, the er 23 then extending rear- 22-where it is fixed to a rotatable horizontal shaft 31 suitably mounted atthe rear of the casing 21 The other end; ofthe carriage 25 has a;flexible member 32 attached} theretoand extend ed directly rearwardly,where it is attached to another rotatable shaft 33 which isjournaledabove the shaft 31. The shafts. 31 and 33 are intergeared bymeans ofspur gearsB land 35, and the uppershaft 33 is provided witli' aprojecting end having a crank 36 whereby the shaft 33 may be turned. Itwill; thus be seen that by rotating the shaft33 inone direction theflexible member 32- is paid out, while the flexible me1nber'28 is woundupon the shaft 31 so as to. cause movement of the figure 27 from withinthe house like structure 15as. shown to a point upon the porch 3 asshownby dotted lines in said ,figuref A reverse operation of the shaft 33will pay out:' the flexible member 28 and wind the flexible member 32upon the shaft 33x return the figure within the house-like structure 3 Acurtain 37 is disposed at each side of and both of these curtainsareslidablyx hung upon a rod 38 or the like so that the curtains may. bepulled toward closing the doorway or away to open thelatter. A flexi- 39has one end attached to the shaft- 33 and extends forwardly therefromaround a guide 40 from which it passesupcasing 21 to a. point adjacentthe rod 33 where it is passedaround a further guide l the curtainsas atand attached togthe inner edge of one of V i The flexible member39isthen further extended .to the opposite sideof the doorway where itpasses aroun still another guide at and then downwardly through thetopof the casing 21 where it is attached-to the lower shaft 3l as shownin Fig/4'. Another similar flexible member t 33-at itsrother end and thesame extendsforwardly around the guide l6 and then upwardly throughthetopof. the casing 21 where it passes around another guide i l'i toone side and above the doorway The flexible member then extends.horizontally across the top of the doorwaywhere it is .f to, i the othercurtain 3T astened as at 48 and then passed a2, and" downwardly aroundaguide 49. The flexible member-'45 then {extends rearwardlyand isattached to around the guide fthe lower shaftf3l as .shownin Fig. (5. It

will thus be seen that when the shaft 33 is and L 5 are wound rotatedfor moving the figure 27 to a point upon the porch 8, the flexiblemembers 39 upon the shaft 33 and paid out from the shaft 31 so as topull the curtains 37 aside for opening the doorway 7 as the fi urepasses outwardly through the latter. onversely, when the shaft 33 isrotated in the other-direction the flexible members 39 and l5 are woundupon the shaft 31 and paid out from the shaft 33 so as to draw thecurtains 37. toward each other and across the doorway T as the figure QTpasses inwardly theret-hrough. In order to produce an audible signal forcalling attention as the figure passes outwardly through the doorway 7,an ordinary spring motor operated bell 50 is suitably mounted on abracket 51 fixedupon thetop of the casing 21 with its push button 59.disposed in the path ofapivot arm 53 carried by the bracket 51, the arm53 being disposed above said push button and havingthe flexible member39 passing through the free end of the same. A button or anabutmentmember 54 is at tached to the flexible member 39 above the arm 53 sothat when said flexible member 39 is wound upon the shaft 31 for openingthe curtains 37 as the figure 9.7 passes outwardly through the doorway7, the button 54 engagesthe arm 53 and moves the same downwardly so asto press the push button andcause thebell 50 to ring.

The shaft 1 st isprovided at one end with a, crank arm 55 which has itsfree end attached to a flexible memberv 56, and thisflexible member 56extends downwardly through the top of the casing 21 and around a guide57 and then rearwardly where it is attached to the shaft so that whenthe-figure 27 moves from'its dottedline position of Fig. 3 to its fullline positionin said figure, the flexible member 56is wound upontheshaft 33 and the disks 16 are, rotated in the direction oppositeto thatindicated by the arrow in Fig. 3 for causing said disks to deliver acigar toapointabove a tray 58'll0ld in the hands .of the figure 27, fromwhence the cigar dropslto said tray. Asthe shaft is operated inanopposite direction for moving the figure 2T outwardly through thedoorway 7, the flexible member 56 is pai out, and a spring 59 isassociatedwith the shaft 14: so as to return the disks in the, directionof-the arrowofFig. 3, to the dottedline position for permitting anothercigar to move into thenotches 17., This-operation may be successivelyperformed until allof the cigars are dispensedmndithen a new supply ofcigars may be placed upon the incline plate 13 for openingtheclosure 12.It. is obvious thatanumber of well known coin controlled mechanisms maybe associated-with thevshaft 33-inorderto practically employ the presentinvention for; the purpose of vending cigars and the like, but

as the present invention is restricted to the particular deliveringapparatus the illustration of a coin controlled mechanism in connectiontherewith is deemed unnecessary.

a cigar receiving element, of

means to simultaneousl deliver cigars one at a time to said receivingmember and to move the figure through the doorway onto the porch.

a. n a device for delivering cigars, the combination with having a porchwith a doorway communicating therebetween, of a mounted to structure toa point said doorwa ing element, of means to simultaneously doorway ontothe porch, a pair 01 curtains movably suspended normally across saiddoorway, to simultaneousl I said curtains upon outwardly toward 3. In adevice for delivering combination with a house-like structure loorwaycommunicating therebetween, of a figure movably the house-like mountedto pass from within porch through structure to a point upon the saiddoorway and including a cigar receiving element, of to simultaneously deiver cigars one at a time to said receivin curtains upon movement of thefigure outwardly toward said doorway, an audible alarm, and means tocause sounding of said alarm upon movement of the gure outwardly of thedoorway.

In combination cigar receiving member,

means to deliver cigars point above said cigar receiving member as thefigure comes to rest at its rearmost os1t1on so that said cigar may dropby ravity into said receivin member.

cigar may drop by gravity into receiving member, and a house likeprovided with a a doorway communicating therebetween, the rearmostposition of the figure being within said house-like structure and thefore most position of the same being upon said porch.

In testimony whereof I affix in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN HULL.

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my signature Witnesses I'IARRY S. Woonwano,

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